Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

You had very rich and powerful adware companies, making liberal use of bundled installers. The adware was frequently incredibly invasive, with affiliate networks often in meltdown promoting every kind of rogue install under the sun. As an added bonus, so were many representatives from the adware vendors. Exploits were rampant.

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Appknox

JUNE 23, 2022

The risks to the privacy of Australian customers are at an all-time high, as the nation has reported the highest percentage of mobile threats globally, standing at 26.9%. The Australian population is at most risk if you consider the statistics on a per-device basis. Apple iOS users often fall prey to mobile scams; around 30.1%

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Effective security software shields you from worms, trojans, adware , and more. The flip side to this convenience, however, is that we risk losing control over who can access our personal information. And it protects not just your PC and laptop, but also your tablets, smartphones, and other digital devices.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

This article will walk you through the various types of malware, how to identify and prevent a malware attack, and how to mitigate the risks. Malware can be categorized based on how it behaves (adware, spyware and ransomware), and how it propagates from one victim to another (viruses, worms and trojans). What is Malware?

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Methodology To gain an insight into the current landscape of gaming-related cybersecurity risks, Kaspersky has conducted extensive research into prevalent threats targeting the gaming community. The most common threat was Downloaders (89.70%), followed by Adware (5.25%) and Trojans (2.39%).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

These could be spamware, adware or phishing emails that infect your device or steal your data. If consumers have corporate files or email on their personal devices or they’re using company-owned devices to shop or check email, their employer is at risk.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2024

This ends up executing sketchy code that installs viruses, ransomware, spyware, or adware behind the victim's back. Here's some evidence for those who consider the risk far-fetched. In addition to the risks outlined by CISA, these add-ons don't sift out dubious advertisements on search engines that are increasingly common.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The predictions, based on our extensive experience, help individuals and businesses improve their cybersecurity and prevent the vast range of possible risks. According to the freshest data on DeFi, every hour 15 newly deployed scams against smart contracts are detected. Forecasts for 2023.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Can remove trojans, ransomware, worms, viruses, rootkits, adware, potentially unwanted programs, and other objects. They provide a first line of defense against fake, scam, phishing and spoofed websites, created to harm devices, compromise security, and even steal personal information. TotalAV’s Key Features.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

To boost their profits and depend less on outsourcing, some groups such as Revil even scammed their affiliates , adding a backdoor capable of hijacking negotiations with victims and taking the 70% of the ransom payments that is supposed to go to the affiliates. Facebook incidents (a data breach in April and a data leak in October).

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SecureList

APRIL 10, 2023

To reduce risks when making deals, cybercriminals often resort to the services of disinterested intermediaries — escrow services or middlemen. Note, however, that on the dark web nothing eliminates the risk of being scammed with 100% probability. The only permission that a flashlight app needs is to use the flashlight.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Fake applications are used for many different kinds of scams, including the spreading of ransomware. Some of those fake apps steal your banking data when you try to pay for the extra functionality; others display adware or take money for scam subscriptions. And there are those which infect you with ransomware.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Scams could present themselves in many forms. For instance, financially-motivated threat actors often plant in malicious URLs spoofing these events to fraudulent sites, hoping to maximize their chances of scamming naive internet users for a quick (illicit) profit.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

To assess the current landscape of gaming risks, we observed the most widespread PC game-related threats and statistics on miner attacks, threats masquerading as game cheats, stealers, and analyzed several most active malware families, giving them detailed in-depth characteristics. Methodology. Key findings.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Suffice it to say the website is a survey scam. If you visit the same gameportpc URL, however, the downloaded filebecomes a Trojan dropper, which then drops adware. Malwarebytes detects the Trojan and adware as Trojan.Dropper and Adware.Agent.Generic , respectively. Everything falls apart at that point. Game on, and stay safe!

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Mobidash Android adware spread through phishing and online links Stay safe! We don’t just report on threats—we remove them Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline. Keep threats off your devices by downloading Malwarebytes today.

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Webroot

MAY 12, 2021

However, when examined more closely, most hosting IPs were found to have hosted malicious content (such as some serious malware ) in the past, and had connections to other high-risk IPs. Bitcoin scams. We observed targeted and localised bitcoin scams promising riches and asking users for banking details. lc streaming site.

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SecureList

MAY 26, 2021

To evaluate and compare the risk of being infected by banking Trojans and ATM/POS malware, for each EU country we calculated the share of users of Kaspersky products who faced this threat during the reporting period as a percentage of all attacked users in that country. Countries where users faced the greatest risk of online infection.

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SecureList

JUNE 7, 2023

Adware remained the most widespread threat to macOS users. In addition to that, we frequently came across all kinds of system “cleaners” and “optimizers”, many of these containing highly annoying ads or classic scams, where users were offered to buy solutions to problems that did not exist. 2 AdWare.OSX.Amc.e

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SecureList

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Once installed, these files would primarily load Adware – programs that flooded victims’ devices with unwanted advertising and gathered their personal data for third-party use, but in particular cases the same spreading technique is used to download malicious implants for targeted espionage. Scam and phishing.

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